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Officials at the Barack Obama Presidential Library in Chicago announced today that President Obama, now, of course, World President Obama, will visit Chicago on the occasion of his 70th birthday, on 4 August 2031, to commemorate Amtrak's 10th Anniversary of the inauguration of service on high speed intercity passenger rail service between Chicago and St. Louis that provided the first link in passenger rail improvements under the "American Prosperity Program" and helped lead to the American Renaissance, simultaneously stimulating explosive growth of wind and solar energy production and leaving behind for the former President a transportation legacy as important as President Eisenhower's Interstate Highway System.
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President Obama made a bold, second term proposal when he called for an all-out commitment by the nation to change our old ways of using energy, and doing business, and living because we were destroying our only planetary home. Getting his vision turned into law had to wait until after the 2014 mid term elections. By then resurgent Democratic victories, fueled by successful campaigns by progressives, finished stamping out the last resistance from the Republican backlash of 2010 and delivered veto proof majorities in both houses and a filibuster proof Senate to the triumphant President.
The American people still needed more and better jobs after so many years of Republican mischief, and corruption, and insanity and economic nonsense. Everyone need a more vibrant economy that worked for everybody. Finally, under the President's leadership, the Congress was able to enact a combination of tax, fiscal, regulatory, defense, security, energy, education and transportation policies that put American on a path of economic and social progress from which she has not since veered, while also firmly reestablishing American freedom and privacy rights and reversing police state oppression.
The American Renaissance was just one part of the App in President Obama's brilliant "There's an App for that!" campaign waged on behalf of his "American Prosperity Program". It helped that there really was an app for that, of course, which allowed millions to understand and appreciate the benefits of such a broad ranging and complex shift of the government's direction in so many different American affairs.
The linkage of America's cities by high speed passenger rail running on wind, solar and other renewable energy sources was only a part of the American Renaissance that blossomed into an age of growing prosperity. Because the APP tied these project to the simultaneous development of renewable energy sources to power them, their synergistic effects proved unstoppable. At the same time these and other infrastructure projects created good paying, union, American jobs with unemployment dropping, by the time President Obama left office, below 2.5%, a rate not seen in the USA since the Korean War.
Amtrak started service on the new high speed route between Chicago and St. Louis, known to all as the Lincoln Line, on August 4, 2021. Apparently World President Obama was unable to resist the coincidence as he visits his home in Chicago to observe his own landmark birthday that same day. Since it went into service, Amtrak's Lincoln Line has taken over 2/3 of the passengers formerly traveling by air between those destinations, as well as many automobile passengers and all motor bus passengers, as highway fuel prices continued to rocket upward every year. Because trains going each way are generally scheduled an hour our more apart, the tracks are also available for high speed electric freight by private railway companies that buy access from Amtrak. As another result of all this, maintenance costs on Interstate highway 55 between Chicago and St. Louis fell by 25% due to reduced truck traffic as the trailers move city to city on higher speed freight trains two miles long. With the reduced traffic also came precipitous drops in traffic deaths and injuries.
World President Obama will celebrate his birthday by arriving from St. Louis, in the Windy City, after hosting a party on a private car of the 200 MPH train. He will then attend a series of events in Chicago over the next few days.
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